The Statler Brothers – So Mary Could Make It Home (Guitar)

C
From the first day school let out each summer

F        C     Em            C             G
All the kids would come to our backyard and

Am       C     D             G
We’d play ball and keep track of our home runs

C              Em            C
And all the boys would do just fine but

F              C 
One thing was never known

F  F#m         G             A
I sacrificed my back lot average

Em G           C

[tab]C
So Mary could make it home

C             F
So Mary could make it home

Fm            G              A
I always hit to the right fielder’s mitt

G             C 
So Mary could make it home

C
Well Mary was the first girl I ever knew

F        C     Em
To have a paper route

C             G        Am       C     D             G
I taught her how to fold em up and how to throw em out

C              Em            C
And I remember a thousand evenings

F              C 
When the rain would start to come

F  F#m         G             A
I’d finish the block and get soaking wet

Em G           C
So Mary could make it home

C
So Mary could make it home

C             F
So Mary could make it home

Fm            G              A
Well my old Schwin was a rusty sin

G             C 
So Mary could make it home

C
Well I held hands and carried books

F        C     Em
Like all the other kids

C             G        Am       C     D             G
But I held and carried Mary’s More than anyone did

C              Em            C
And when Mary’s Daddy said 11 O’ Clock

F              C 
In that low curfew tone

F  F#m         G             A
Well I missed the ends of more good movies

Em G           C
So Mary could make it home

C
So Mary could make it home

C             F
So Mary could make it home

Fm            G              A
I missed the end of Gone With The Wind

G             C 
So Mary could make it home

C
It must have been fifteen years

F        C     Em
Since we had seen each other

C             G        Am       C     D             G
But a few months ago I ran into Mary And we had lunch together

C              Em            C
We laughed and talked and then we cried

F              C 
She asked if I would phone

F  F#m         G             A
I lied and said I better not

Em G           C
So Mary could make it home

C
So Mary could make it home

C             F
So Mary could make it home

Fm            G              A
Now the love we steal is short but real

G             C 
So Mary can make it home